Volume 02 of the Sarana archives. Collection of tunes produced from 1995 to 1996. The first essays on the new devices I had acquired.


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Artist/Composer: sarana
Keywords: techno; ambient; experimental; noise; rave

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I got a sampler for my Amiga in 1994-95, and not soon after I plugged the output of Amiga to the input of the sampler creating a feedback loop. The first track is the only souvenir that has remained from the experiment. Sound was driven through a real-time flanger effect, which created an ever-changing soundscape, which I could control by manipulating the input volume potentiometer in the sampler. I connected my sister's keyboard to the loop by wiring it's output directly to the feedback wires. I didn't have a soldering iron and I knotted the wires by hand. Interesting effects were achieved by removing the feedback wire just slightly from the sampler's input and plugging it back in.

Medieval Experience is the second track ever where I used MIDI, the first one is lost. I controlled a MIDI-keyboard (Casio CT-470) I had just purchased. By the end of summer 1995 I had acquired a drum machine (Boss DR-660). This is first heard in 0.99c. That and Analogic, Hyperspace, Get Deep Baby and Future J are the only completely finished tracks. The other ones are both live mixes and improvisations. For sequencing I used Octamed soundstudio on Amiga. I created around 300 short few pattern long pieces of music, which never realized as complete compositions.

In 1996 I added Roland S-10, Korg Polysix and Ensoniq ESQ-1 to my collection of devices. I didn't have to knot the wires by hand any more, for I had a little mixer then. This volume concludes itself in an improvised track, where I used all the devices I had by then (october 1996), hitting notes and adjusting the sound by feel.

Sound has been slightly mastered. All of the tracks were transferred from C-Cassettes except the five finished tracks, which I recorded in 2002. I still had the same keyboard. By bending its circuits I had caused some irreversible damage. The sounds didn't quite come up as they should have, and the glitches are audible now and then.

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